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work_7fucr55m4zdwhdw7b3np3b2mjy	Jonathan Schaffer	Causation by Disconnection	2000	19	.pdf	application/pdf	6984	656	62	The physical and/or intrinsic connection approach to causation has become prominent no physical or intrinsic connection between cause and effect. Some Hume-style, extrinsic, absence-relating, necessary andlor sufficient condition component of the causal relation proves to be needed. and heart piercings cause death by disconnecting this influx, allowing oxygen starvation to run its course: causation by disconnection involves no persistence line between disconnector and effect, but rather the severing of one, as the wiring diagram mechanisms are ubiquitous in nature, present throughout the most intuitively paradigmatic as well as the most theoretically salient causal sequences, with all the conceptual connotations of causation in full force, I think causation is best understood in terms of a hybrid conditionconnection account (C causes E iff an actual E-connection depends on C; (1) Connective causation: C causes E iff (a) C and E are actual, distinct "Good Connections: Causation and Causal Processes".	./cache/work_7fucr55m4zdwhdw7b3np3b2mjy.pdf	./txt/work_7fucr55m4zdwhdw7b3np3b2mjy.txt